US Congress · H.R. 804 · Passed the House

Rural Small Business Resilience Act

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Introduced 2025-01-28

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What it does

Rural Small Business Resilience Act This bill requires the Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience to take necessary actions to ensure that individuals located in rural areas where a disaster has been declared have full access to disaster assistance. Such actions include providing targeted outreach and marketing materials to such individuals.

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1Short title

This section would give the Act the short title "Rural Small Business Resilience Act."

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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rural Small Business Resilience Act .

2Access to disaster assistance for individuals located in rural areas

Within one year after this Act becomes law, this section would require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make sure that the Associate Administrator of the Administration's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience takes the actions needed so that individuals located in rural areas (as rural area is defined in paragraph (16) of section 7(b) of the Small Business Act) have full access to the disaster assistance provided under section 7(b) of the Small Business Act, for any disaster for which a declaration has been made under that section. This access requirement would include providing targeted outreach and marketing materials to those individuals.

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2. Access to disaster assistance for individuals located in rural areas Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall ensure that the Associate Administrator of the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience of the Administration takes such actions as necessary to ensure that individuals located in rural areas (as defined in paragraph (16) of section 7(b) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(b)(16) )) for which a disaster declaration has been made under such section 7(b) have full access to assistance provided under such section, including by providing targeted outreach and marketing materials to such individuals.

3Technical amendment

Section 7(b) of the Small Business Act currently contains two separate paragraphs both numbered (16). This section would fix that by renumbering the second of those two paragraphs, the one relating to the statute of limitations, as paragraph (17).

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3. Technical amendment The second paragraph (16) (relating to statute of limitations) of section 7(b) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(b) ) is redesignated as paragraph (17).

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-01-28

In the House.

Passed the House · 2025-02-25

Senate floor vote · next · the next step

Official documents

Full bill textread it on this site, version rfs (Referred in Senate), as published by GovInfo

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The numbers

29%

of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)

sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass

Who is lobbying on this

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.via CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

7 filings

NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONvia NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

6 filings

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERSvia AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS

4 filings

From 17 filings in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2025 to 2026). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.

Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (2025-02-26).